we did it to ourselves people!!
Stop crying and be happy. Everyone is so quick to compare apples to berries and robots but there is a tremendous bright side to sticking with RIM and the PlayBook.
1st. Those of you complaining about an OS update, be grateful that the company you put your hard earned money into is going to stand by your purchase and not release an i-robot 2 leaving your hardwere incompatible forcing you to scrap what you have and buy the next incremental upgrade. What would make me more upset if RIM pulled a 4s trick on everyone and said that in feb. They would have a playbook2 that looks the same or had minimal changes from the playbook a la ipad2.
2nd. I hate it when people go on blogs and tech media and buy into fanboyism and state that the playbook is a half baked device. One might bring that up if they are a robot or lord Jobs follower. The competition will always try to find a knock on their competitor. The absence of native email, calander and contacts are all for enterprise security purposes. We as consumers must not forget that RIMs DNA is enterprise. I myself am a bit hesitant about having a native email on my playbook. It is an enormous security issue. I dont feel 100% confident if potentially sensitive email is pinned to my "dummy/slave" device. I love that fact that my playbook is my blackberry smartphone AMPLIFIED. Thats awesome. Potentially the sale of one device could lead to the purchase of the complimentary device. I've said it before the bridge is the best app ever invented. And based on the beta zone survey further improvements will make it dynamic. If your a playbook user and not a bb smartphone user well you will miss out on the awesomeness the playbook has to offer. If your a bb smartphone used and not a playbook owner, them embrace the fragmented existence you call a life. I am not upset to see added benefits to people who support the company and have both devices. With that said my playbook is not have baked. Half baked is a web browser without flash. Half baked is buying a dessert OS and a week later not being able to partake in the next dessert on the menu.
3rd.Blog sites like crackberry are intended to unite the fan base, giving a central place in the inter webs for fanboys to share info. BUT too much medicine can kill the sick. We all crave insider info thats why as a whole we love Kevin. I dont think Rene or that disgustingly biased Ashley has gotten private tours to the companies they have aligned themselves to. Thats why we value Kevin so much. By no fault of Mr. M too much insider speculation wether reliable or made up is not good for business. We the crackberry nation are to blame for our self imposed expectations. Mike L didnt let us down we did. Mike L said 2.0 will come after devcon. Feb. 2012 is after devcon 2011. We the crackberry nation would have loved to see 2.0 released on devcon, no one at RIM said oct. 18 is the release date.
And for the people who claimed to purchase the playbook because of what it was supposed to be......who does that? Name one other time you would do that? My playbook was awesome before any word of 2.0 and nothing has changed, just because an update is delayed doesnt make my playbook less awesome than when i got it in May. Theres been no loss of functionality or performance. If you think RIM is bad, think of all the robot tablet owners that will not ever get their hands on an ice cream sandwich and they paid the same you did for your playbook.
P.s. And NO just because you have a playbook doesnt mean you automatically get BBM.
If you want to be down with BBM then be down with RIM and get a BB phone too.